A Holly Card!

I went to make a card for Holly - which I thought would be easy given the fact that she has quite a festive name! But I found it quite hard to make holly look babyish.

This is what I came up with:

I have added an extra piece of silver mirri on the inside with more holly stamped and coloured with sakura glaze pens. I added this after I had given the card to Holly never mind after I took the photo!!
I had the "Holly" wording which came with the bauble stamp from Joanna Sheen, and I stamped and embossed it with sticum powder and stuck pink glitter to it. The baubles were stamped and glittered onto acetate and slotted through each other to create a 3D type bauble to hang in the aperture of the card.
The sentiment was printed onto pink vellum and (working quickly) I applied the sticum powder and glitter to it.

It wasn't quite what I was looking for but I suppose it turned out OK.

I hope you like it!!

We can't forget Ryan!

I made a card for Ryan - saying as Holly was getting all the cards and pressies - I didn't want him feeling left out!
I saw the image on (you guessed it!) Joanna Sheen's Baby love CD and I thought it was just perfect!
So it was very simply mounted onto silver mirri with a piece of ribbon and a sentiment added and attached to pale blue stardream base card.

He seemed happy enough and I let him work away with it, it just got a little bit bent up!
I also got him an "In the night garden" book which he also loved!

The final card for Holly

This is the last card I made for Holly. I made it for my little sister Rachael to give even though it is by far my favourite of the three - but hey that's me! (Sinead knows I made them all anyway!!)

I used punch stardream card and made it into an A5 gatefold card. I stamped and embossed a flower stamp with holographic embossing powder down the right flap. I then used an image (again from Joanna Sheen's Baby Love CD - I've got my money's worth from this CD!!) and decoupaged the little girl and the balloon. I also added some pink and white sakura glaze pens and some clear sakura stardust pen over the dots around the picture - the glaze pens leaving a slight texture.
I mounted some of the corresponding backing paper onto silver mirri card and attached it to the left flap.
Then I placed a magnet on the inner right flap, closed the card and more or less just dropped the other magnet on top. I made sure that the magnets would be placed where they would be hidden.
I mounted the image using foam pads over the backing paper and hiding the magnet. I also added a couple of sentiments.

For the inside I mounted some silver mirri and some more of the corresponding backing paper on the inside of the flaps - hiding the other magnet.
I also made a little waterfall piece also mounted onto silver mirri (to hide the back of the brads).
And then I got Rachael to sign where you pull the tab to animate the waterfall.

So that's it. Thanks for looking!

Another card for Holly...

This is another card that I made for Holly - this one was from Ma & Da so therefore for their Grand-daughter!

It's another image from Joanna Sheen's Baby Love CD and this time I punched out the face of the angel from the unused largest image using a square punch and another from some mount board. I mounted the picture up and tripple embossed it using holographic powder to give it a really nice sparkly effect. I coloured around the edges to correspond with the colour of the card and then carefully attached it to the main picture. I also painted the wing with a white H20 paint.
I mounted the image onto the matching backing paper from the CD and some mirri card along with some cream feathers sticking out from behind.

I made up an embellishment using some more of the feathers and stamped and embossed a flourish stamp - with white powder on pink vellum and with pink powder on white vellum. I cut around these and attached them to the feathers with wire. I tied a ribbon around the wire and curled a little flower onto the ribbon (this used to be for your hair!). I attached the embellishment using silicone glue.

I added the sentiments which were printed and mounted on mirri card, and in the words of Gordon Ramsey - Done!

For my new niece!

So, I managed to fit in making some cards for the new baby - I've been so busy lately I don't know how I did it!
I was inspired by Suzanne's wonderful ideas to make my card and a small present. You can see her blog here.
So first of all I made little cards with matching envelopes which are simply printed, scored, cut, folded and stuck. They are from Joanna Sheen's Baby Love CD.
Then I made a box to put them in - I was able to make the cards, envelopes and the base of the box before the baby was born as they aren't gender specific! Then I just had to make and decorate the lid of the box! Again the images are from the Baby Love CD and match the cards. I coloured around the heart with a pink Sakura gelly roll glaze pen to make it a lovely purple colour.

Then I made my card to match the present. I printed out the sheet of toppers from the Baby Love CD and cut around one of the biggest hearts. Again, I coloured the blue edge of the heart with the pink pen and carefully stuck DS tape as close to the edge as I could get it (between the scallops I snipped the tape and stuck it back on itself.)
I then got a piece of pink glitter card and folded it in half and then the two side in half again to make a pop out piece for the inside of the card.
Then, I stuck the heart to the pop-out piece carefully lining it up with the centre line. Using a sharp blade I cut around the heart shape leaving the scalloped edge attached to the pop-out piece. I then attached the whole piece to some pink mirri card folded with the mirri to the inside.
I kept the cut out heart and used it to decoupage the topper for the front of the card and added a few other embellishments to the front before finishing the inside using one of the smaller toppers mounted onto a circle of card and attaching it to the pop-out with jump rings. I also wrote the date the baby was born onto the back of the circle.

This is the front of the card:

And this is the inside of the card:

So that was my card. I'll add a couple of others later!
Thanks for looking!
x

New Home!

Well, my brother has finally got a house of his own - about time too!!
So I made him these cards:

The images on both cards are from Joanna Sheen's new CD "Baby Love". Just simple print, cut, mat and layer!

They are now proudly on display on his mantlepiece for all to see! That is if anyone visit's him!!